Nikkei 225 records one of its largest-ever drops

The Washington Post is reporting that Japan's Nikkei 225 recorded one of its largest-ever drops, closing at 8605.15 — down 10.55 percent. Coupled with Monday...

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Nikkei on track for biggest daily gain since June 2013

Nikkei on track for biggest daily gain since June 2013

Nikkei on track for biggest daily gain since June 2013

Japan's Nikkei share average soared 3.3% on Monday morning and is on track to post the biggest daily rise in more than a year after Wall Street took heart on Friday from upbeat U.S. data, while the weaker yen lifted exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co.
The Nikkei share average rose 482.98 points to 15,015.49 in mid-morning trade to recover most of the losses posted last week.
Upbeat U.S. consumer sentiment gave relief to investor sentiment and lifted risk appetite. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose in early October to its highest level since July 2007. Separate data

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"See What Others Don't": Official Nikkei Asian Review Launch Promo

"See What Others Don't": Official Nikkei Asian Review Launch Promo

"See What Others Don't": Official Nikkei Asian Review Launch Promo

The official launch video for Nikkei Asian Review, Asia's only English language publication about Asia, by Asia. Nikkei Asian Review brings insights from Asia, from the inside out. As part of Nikkei, Asia's largest independent business media group, with a 135 year history and network of over 1,300 local and international reporters on the ground in 24 bureaus across Asia, Nikkei Asian Review provides credible, comprehensive pan-Asian reporting. Designed for leaders around the world who are shaping the future of Asia, and anyone with an interest in knowing about the real Asia, Nikkei Asian Review has been created to change the way Asia is repor

Nikkei on track for biggest daily gain since June 2013

published:20 Oct 2014

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Japan's Nikkei share average soared 3.3% on Monday morning and is on track to post the biggest daily rise in more than a year after Wall Street took heart on Friday from upbeat U.S. data, while the weaker yen lifted exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co.
The Nikkei share average rose 482.98 points to 15,015.49 in mid-morning trade to recover most of the losses posted last week.
Upbeat U.S. consumer sentiment gave relief to investor sentiment and lifted risk appetite. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose in early October to its highest level since July 2007. Separate data showed groundbreaking for new homes rose more than expected last month.
Traders said investors are scooping up recently battered stocks after the Nikkei tumbled 5 percent last week hit by concerns about global growth and the stronger yen.
"Selling in some of the stocks was overdone. Investors are buying them on the dips," a trader at a Japanese brokerage said.
But some analysts still stay cautious against negative catalysts which battered the market earlier this month.
"With Halloween just around the corner, the market was spooked by 'ghosts' and these ghosts will probably stick around longer," said Hiroyuki Nakai, chief strategist at Tokai Tokyo Research Center.
"The ghosts are European economic concerns, worries on what could happen after the Fed ends tapering, and fears about Ebola."
Nakai said that these fears still linger in the market, and the rebound may be short-lived.
Toyota jumped 5.2 percent, Honda soared 3.2 percent and Panasonic Corp surged 5.0 percent after the dollar rose 0.2 percent at 107.18 yen, putting further distance between a five-week low of 105.90 hit the previous week.
NEC Corp rose 5.3 percent after the Nikkei business daily reported that its operating profit for the April-September period was likely to be about 20 billion yen, compared to just shy of 400 million yen in the previous year.
The broader Topix jumped 3.6 percent to 1,219.12, and the new JPX-Nikkei Index 400 gained 3.6 percent to 11,095.52.- Reuters
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"See What Others Don't": Official Nikkei Asian Review Launch Promo

published:21 Nov 2013

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The official launch video for Nikkei Asian Review, Asia's only English language publication about Asia, by Asia. Nikkei Asian Review brings insights from Asia, from the inside out. As part of Nikkei, Asia's largest independent business media group, with a 135 year history and network of over 1,300 local and international reporters on the ground in 24 bureaus across Asia, Nikkei Asian Review provides credible, comprehensive pan-Asian reporting. Designed for leaders around the world who are shaping the future of Asia, and anyone with an interest in knowing about the real Asia, Nikkei Asian Review has been created to change the way Asia is reported in the global marketplace. We report the facts about what is happening in Asia and offer insights over opinions that dig deeper into the heart of a story. Without editorial or political bias, Nikkei Asian Review tells untold stories about Asia, from Asia. You can find Nikkei Asian Review online, on mobile and tablet devices and as a weekly print edition.

Gesture and Tactile Interfaces: Applications in Mobile Computing and American Sign Language

published:15 Oct 2010

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Google Tech Talk
June 16, 2010
Presented by Thad Starner.
Our explorations in gesture recognition and tactile interfaces for wearable computing have revealed some surprising applications for mobile computing and the Deaf community. Mobile Music Touch, a glove with embedded vibrators, allows users to learn to play piano melodies while performing other tasks, such as reading this abstract. The Textile Interface Swatchbook demonstrates seven functional GUI-like interface widgets rendered on fabric with embroidered conductive thread. BuzzWear uses electro- and vibro-tactile displays on a wristband to present incoming alerts and to provide feedback for gesture input using proximity sensors. The MAGIC toolkit addresses the false triggering problem that limits the use of gestures to initiative interactions with motion sensor equipped mobile devices. CopyCat is an educational game that use our computer vision-based American Sign Language recognition system to help young deaf children acquire language skills. SmartSign teachs parents of deaf infants sign through sign lessons delivered on mobile phone. Finally, BrainSign attempts to recognize sign language gestures directly through brain signals in the motor cortex.
Thad Starner is an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Computing. Thad was perhaps the first to integrate a wearable computer into his everyday life as an intelligent personal assistant. Starner's work as a PhD student would help found the field of Wearable Computing. His group's prototypes and patents on mobile MP3 players, mobile instant messaging and e-mail, gesture-based interfaces, and mobile context-based search foreshadowed now commonplace devices and services. Thad has authored over 100 scientific publications with over 100 co-authors on mobile Human Computer Interaction (HCI), pattern discovery, human power generation for mobile devices, and gesture recognition, and he is a founder and current co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems. His work is discussed in public forums both in the United States and internationally, such as CNN, NPR, the BBC, CBS's 60 Minutes, The New York Times, Nikkei Science, The London Independent, The Bangkok Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Public web page: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad

5th January 2015 Supply and demand Weekly Analysis MAJORS

published:06 Jan 2015

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Dear fellow trader,
Happy new year 2015 to all of you. A new year has started, what will it have in store for us? Hopefully many good things, moreover if we work hard and focus on our goals and passions, we must live for and by our passions.
I wanted to share the supply and demand weekly analysis of the year with you. This is the kind of analysis that will be shared at www.set-and-forget.com supply and demand community every week, together with a second video for cross pairs, about 20 or more pairs are covered every week, then we update and plan trades at the community. I sent this message yesterday to all those that subscribed to the webinars but I had no time to post it over here since I still am on holidays.
Note: the analysis talks about breakout trades and probably WoW trades, they are new setups that were introduced last year but haven't been covered yet in the public webinars. Both are high probability setups based on supply and demand imbalances
I also talk about the losses I've had, they are also shared in the community, losses are part of the game. I have many more winners than losses so the balance is on my side. I'm holding a few more trades than the ones in the weekly analysis, many on US cross pairs and exotics.
Weekly analysis is a bigger picture trading analysis, but it can be used to drill your entries down to H4 and lower timeframes. My entry timeframe is mostly the D1 chart.
- Dollar index. Very bullish, broke Monthly and Weekly SZ, created a WK PCP and broke higher
- S&P500. Strong uptrend, the BO long of the highest highs in history didn't work again, they are lower odds. Some counter-trend shorts could work until price finds good demand lower
- NIKKEI Index. Monthly all time high SZ is in control, D1 WoW short has played out and work and some counter-trend shorts could work, same with other Yen pairs
- EURO: dropping again, broke lower than previous D1 DZ and could be dropping further since no fresh or original MN demand demand lower. US Index doing the exact opposing thing.
- POUND: Bigger picture is down, similar breakout short to - EURUSD, short bias.
- YEN: Nikkei is reacting to MN SZ, some counter-trend could happen on yen pairs. USD/JPY is behaving a bit different and it could rally higher. I am short now on USD/JPY
- AUSSIE: AUD/USD broke even lower bias is short at the valid levels. Similar on most AUSSIE pairs
CAD: USDCAD broke higher helped by the dollar strength. Long bias, still holding the long
- The New Zealand Kiwi. NZDUSD has still a tricky situation, WK SZ holding, bias is shorts, odds is shorts. My H4 breakout short hit its take profit
I will try to get organized and send each week a quick analysis on 4 pairs each week, those in the mailing list will receive that analysis. I'm working on a blog, those analysis will be posted there in the future as well as here.
Happy New Year 2015!
Alfonso